Content:

​

Grade 5
• Digestive: Mouth, stomach, intestines, etc.
• Musculo-skeletal: muscles and skeleton
• Respiratory: trachea, lungs, and diaphragm
• Circulatory: heart, blood, blood vessels

Grade 6
• First People’s understandings of body systems in humans and animals
• Excretory: kidneys, ureters, bladder, etc.
• Reproductive: ovaries, tests, etc.
• Hormonal: chemical messengers in the body (e.g. insulin, adrenalin)
• Nervous: brain, spinal cord, etc. role of receptors – the brain intercepts the signals received and can make mistakes (e.g. optical illusions) in those interpretations.